The people who know me the very best…these ladies.  We just returned from our annual trip–which we have managed to pull off, despite pregnancies and childbirth and all sorts of life events, for 16 YEARS.  We come from all over–Denver, Florida, Washington DC, Pennsylvania.  Not every one can make it every year, but boy do we try.

This year, as 4 of us are turning 40, I was reminded of just how special these weekends are.  We drink, we chat, we dissect everyone’s issues, we laugh, we cry…it is the most therapeutic time for me and I’m always wishing it was just one. day. longer.  So here’s to you ladies, and here’s my 10 on 10 for June.

Lovely ladies night 1 | House with a pool-always a plus | Our own private beach | Beautiful skies | Group shot while waiting for a cab | Me, relaxing poolside

Final night out at a bar | Rain every afternoon | Headed back from the beach | The gang

Be sure to check out the next talented photog:  Maria Saurbrei and see her 10 on 10 for June!

Lisa

Well here it is another month gone by and I haven’t posted since last month’s 10 on 10!  Gah.  So many ideas in my head and I desperately want to express them here…but for some reason can’t put fingers to keyboard.  A little afraid, I think, to say what I really want to say.  But anyway…I took these images on Easter and I think it says alot about where we are right now.  Happy. Relaxed.  Comfortable in this rental home, and ok with maybe being here longer than we had originally planned.  A certain someone tells me this all the time and more every day I know it to be true:  everything is going to be ok.  It is.

My 10 on 10:

Easter Prep

Pretty flowers

Table set

Egg hunt

Fun with bubbles

The traditional dying of eggs.  Yuck.  I hate hard boiled eggs and throw them away as soon as we are done, every year.

Sisters

My Sue Sue.

Be sure to continue in our circle and check out the next talented photog:  Mary Schannen and see her 10 on 10 for this month!

We could also call this…the day I just got off my computer and did other things.

Sometimes being a professional photographer is hard.  We’ve all read on facebook, on the blogs…our market is oversaturated and each one of us has to work 1,000 times harder to eek out even a tiny corner for ourselves.  We are flooded with sub-par images and news that so-in-so is charging 50 cents for an entire disc of images!  Yay!  And then we start to doubt ourselves.  Maybe I’m doing something wrong.  And there’s a barrage of people telling us what we NEED to do.  Take a workshop!  Buy this template!  Rebrand yourself!  It’s all just so much noise…and after lunching with a friend the other day and discussing this exact topic…I decided to just unplug for the rest of the day.  I needed silence.  So I did a few things:

I picked up poop in the backyard.  Not the most glamorous, but boy is it nice to look out there and see a clean yard, now that the snow is melting.

I did some dishes.

I sat in my girls rooms and admired the mess, the non made beds that were supposed to be made, and thought about what good people they are.

I cleaned my dirty tub.

I took a nap.

I cleaned out mr frog’s tank.  Disgusting.  I can’t even talk about it.

I thought about how much I love these chairs from ikea.

I straightened up my closet.  This actually looks GOOD.  Couldn’t even walk in there before.

I finally sewed up a hole in a sweater that had been sitting out for a month.

And you know what?  I felt better.  Because sitting in front of the computer seeing what everyone else is doing on facebook or what everyone else is shooting or charging isn’t helping me one bit.  Taking care of me, my home, my kids…does help.  The business will come.

Now, continue in our circle and check out Amy Schilling and see her 10 on 10 this month!

OK so when you are tasked with taking pictures of your life hour by hour during the day…you really realize just how boring your life is.  So GET READY.  Super exciting stuff coming up!

Here’s my day…and sorry I ended at 7:15pm, but after that I was scurrying the girls into bed so I could watch the Bachelor.  Ha!

Check out the next talented photog:  Kimberlee Edwards and see her 10 on 10 this month!

This year I am participating in a group “10 on 10″ project. And for the first month…well I did it wrong. We are supposed to take 1 picture each hour on the 10th of the month; however, I thought it was 10 pictures of a particular theme. And since I was headed to Vegas last Friday I didn’t have time to redo it…I guess I could have done 10 images hourly of Vegas, but I’m sure that breaks some sort of Vegas code

Anyway-here is my 10 on 10-The Morning Shuffle:

1. Late already  2. Hairdo is very important  3. Beds must be made!  4. Belt help, Mom?  5. Breakfast 6&7. Backpacks  8. Water Bottles  9.  In the car  10. Car loop

Head on to the next blog:  Ana Luisa Solis and see her 10 on 10 for January!